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Thank you Gareth, I knew that; I was mocking the line from Shakespeare's Henry V: you know the Kevin Branagh movie. [dyswidt]

[my underlining] As said not so long ago, Trump is POTUS, this is the POTUS thread. If you want to complain, complain about the constant derailments: maybe insist that new threads are started for new digressions. Oh and just for info: 'linky' edity' etc are the usual terms used on most forums among imaginary friends to uphold the sense of community. Something which because of your aggressive, inflammatory posting is lacking here.

Another aggressive non-contribution that really creates a sense of community. Maybe you should just stick your knuckles in your eyes and cry boo hoo for England and St George!

Encore: Knocking on Heaven's Door. Fu...uck!

Yep. But just to clarify since it is attracting attention. As to the thread: a certain other thread was being wrecked by a certain needy person who insisted on clogging it up by constantly asking for personal details from other members. This thread was started as a comedy antidote to that irritant: so that his enquiries could be brought here rather than have them continue to infest that other thread; hence the tone of the OP and hence the advice given therein regarding divulging personal info. Advice that has been born out by that certain poster continuing to use personal details to demean and belittle other posters and anything they post. This thread was never meant to be taken seriously, was never meant to grow beyond the op; but as with many threads it has transcended its origins and taken on a life of its own. Which is fine. As to anonymity: in the old days you were just another poster with a comedy name: no would ever dream of using their real name nor having an existence beyond the forum. It was assumed you would post in good faith and engage honestly with other posters: this constant attacking of the posters themselves rather attending to and discussing the matters they raise is unsettling and leaves me more disinclined than ever to 'come out'. As to myself: for many other reasons that are not important my anonymity is important: I can have no internet presence whatsoever: that's just the way it is. I am Nemo. Sorry for any upset; I meant no harm.

Sisters of Mercy bootleg Live at Tivoli, Utrect, November 1984. Heartstoppingly stunning. Now doing Emma. Pity you can't share.

I started it for you, you lummox! So that instead of clogging up this thread with your incessant pleading for personal information you could take it there and be ignored by everyone here. And regarding that: why would anyone share personal information on a forum inhabited in part by someone like yourself knowing that that information would be pounced upon, weaponised and used as an instrument of abuse and ridicule against them in all future posts? You have as good as said that you are only here to troll and be disruptive*: such things do not a happy forum make. *Let me save you the trouble of feigning ignorance of this: A while back I hap't to mention a few things that would be taken as unstated protocols for the smooth running of any forum of this nature: engagement for one, maybe verification. You stated, I think, boring/tedious, life's too short/can't be bothered or similar. From that, what else should I conclude? ETA 2nd asterisk

You. Since you ask.

The irony being that if it wasn't for the same internet bullies screaming "mtfu" at anyone who comes back at them, no-one would even have to think about 'mtfu'. And in a week when the pressure on young boys to 'man up' has had such tragic consequences too.

No, nothing, leave em open to the light & air - just as long as the lower half is in the wet you'll be fine. Like I said mine were used as an walk-way across marshy ground and so just lightly pressed in with the top surface still showing. I'll be down there again over the w/e: I'll take some pics.

Have no fear. Any sticks of willow 1"-4" lain flat in a wet ditch will sprout profusely. But get them in now and keep them wet: the sprouting season is upon us. I've been working on the restoration of a silted up area above an old pond; as I cut the willow back (back in jan, feb) I was cutting it in to lengths and make a number of track-ways across the soft, wet, marshy ground: they are all now sprouting. ETA PS just re-read your post: no need to hack the nicks.

So refute it. That's how it works. Someone makes a claim, someone else makes a counterclaim. Discuss, research, debate. Refute and verify. Kick the ball, not the shins. Try it.

Open the pod bay doors please Hal. Open the pod bay doors please Hal. Click click Open the pod bay doors please Hal. Twiddle Open the pod bay doors please Hal. I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid that I can't do that. What's the problem Hal? I'm installing updates 3 of 10, time remaining 35 minutes...

How the hell do you get angry and self-loathing from that? Try reading slowly; it in a laid back, feet up on the table Jack Hargreaves kinda way. And then maybe engage with what was posted. Cheerio. deedly dee, di dum di dee dee; deedly dee, di dum di dee dee...

'olds' needs an apostrophe Gareth. Just sayin' like.

(Zombie resurrection noted) Thanks all. Top advice all round. All noted. Job jobbed. (Nothing major - just some long fallen marginal willows and lots of deep soft silt: chest waders + least favourite chainsaw + long bar + good dry out afterwards. And lots of re-sharpening cos of silt.) The job is a good one! Happy days, Yourn

Half a dozen lines, between mouthfuls of tea; took two minutes before going out: sorry if that's too much for you. So why did you post it if you don't want to discuss it? And why did you put it in POTUS rather than start a new thread? What has it got to do with POTUS? If it has some meaning for you, then why not say so, tell us why. Was it not yourself that was crying out for open and honest discussion? Well here it is, here was your chance to be open and honest; but you show yourself, again, to be incapable of such things. At least engage properly, it was your post after all; or is drive-by shit-posting really all you are capable of?

Mind me where? Lacks narrative, lacks purpose, lacks merit: just a load of idioms & memes, platitudes & cliches hung out on the washing line of life. It says nothing: read it again: nothing. There is no point made, no argument discussed, no proposition introduced, expanded nor concluded. Is it meant to be comforting? What even is it? Just dozens of t-shirt slogans wrapped up in a bow. A child could do better after half an hour on a motivational poster website. Maybe someone gave the AI machine to many antidepressants. Shelly it ent. And no references nor citations as to source. Very poor, please don't try harder; your just being boring now.

"Don't tell 'im SPike!"

I was born in a crossfire hurricane and I howled at the morning drivin' rain; I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag, I was schooled with a strap right across my back. In later life I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead and I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled before I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread and was crowned with a spike right through my head. After that I took up gardening: it was quieter..

'Early adoption, mass use and standardisation' =/= 'invented'

'Bought the company' =/= 'invented'

Wiki says, "Gauge blocks were invented in 1896 by Swedish machinist Carl Edvard Johansson" Really. Promise. I just looked cos I thought it was an interesting question; I was wondering if it was Henry Maudsley who invented the screw gauge.

A thread for those needy obsessionals whom absolutely must must must know everything about other posters including their real identity and employment status. So if you absolutely can't live without knowing the finer details such as work travel arrangements, car choice, colour of front door, whether self employed etc; post your enquiries here to save endlessly clogging up other threads again and again and again with the same pointless tiresome old questions. There seems to be a need for this - a dedicated thread - to save having said questions scattered elsewhere and all over the forum. Well now it's here. Any continuing enquiries of this nature appearing on other threads can now be referred here. Respondants are advised that this is a stalkers paradise and that it is inadvisable to give away any personal information whatsoever on a public forum. Enquirants are advised to get out more. Over to you.